Dr. Paul F.M.J. Verschure / Prof. Dr. Tony Prescott / Dr. Anna Mura
The Convergent Science Podcasts on Mind, Brain and Technology
The Convergent Science Network (CSN) Podcast began in 2010 at the Barcelona Cognition, Brain, and Technology (BCBT) Summer School, where hosts Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott sat down with leading scientists right after their lectures. BCBT turned into a series of annual schools on neuroscience, robotics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and biology and is led by Anna Mura. Recordings were done at the Fundació Phonos in Barcelona. What started as informal post-lecture conversations has grown into an archive of 120+ episodes, featuring Nobel laureates, pioneering neuroscientists, roboticists, and interdisciplinary thinkers from around the world. In 2021, the podcast expanded with a new Collaboration series — produced in partnership with the Ernst Strüngmann Forum — exploring how collaboration arises, and why it fails, across business, government, science, art, health, and sustainability. This series supported a multi-year project on understanding and advancing human collaboration which was published in 2025 as “The Nature and Dynamics of Collaboration” (https://esforum.de/publications/sfr34_Collaboration.html). Across both series, the CSN podcasts work toward a multidisciplinary science of mind and brain — one that breaks down the silos of single-discipline thinking and pursues a new integrative, convergent paradigm in which insights emerge from the meeting of concepts, methods, technologies, and data. The same agenda drives the annual Living Machines conference, also organised by CSN, and the Handbook of Living Machines we published in 2018 (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/living-machines- 9780199674923?cc=es&lang=en& a new edition is being produced right now).
Convergent Science Network Foundation
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